B. Yuki Schwartz
Associate Professor of Constructive Theologies, Spirituality & Decolonial Studies
Dr. Schwartz’s areas of scholarship include deimperial/decolonial studies; Asian and Asian American theology; political theology; and critical race, gender, and sexuality studies. Their dissertation, titled “The Ends of Shame: Toward a Deimperial Political Theology of Messianism,” investigated the development of shame theories under European and US imperialism, with an emphasis on the role of US Cold War politics in Asia in constructing political and theological understandings of shame and guilt.
Dr. Schwartz is a longtime participant in the Pacific Asian North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM) conference, and now serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as a mentor. They also are an ordained Christian minister withstanding in the United Church of Christ.
Dr. Schwartz’s publications include: “The Cosmopolitics of Belonging: Model Minority Superheroes and Theological Imagination” in Embodying Antiracist Christianity: Asian American Theological Resources for Antiracism, edited by Keun-joo Christine Pae and Boyung Lee, “ Model Minority Melancholia: Mourning and Resisting Anti-Asian Violence” in the journal Political Theology (Vol. 25, Issue 1); the “Reimagine Advent: Discover the Liberating Christ” 2021 Advent liturgy published by The General Commission on Religion and Race of the United Methodist Church; “The Shame Culture of Empire: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword as Cold War Playbook for Legitimating US Empire” in Feminist Praxis Against U.S. Militarism, edited by W. Anne Joh and Nami Kim, (Lexington Books, 2020); and “Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation” in When Kids Ask Hard Questions: Faith-filled Responses for Tough Topics, edited by Karen Ware Jackson and Bromleigh McCleneghan, (Chalice Press 2019).
Contact
Email: yschwartz@cst.edu
Education
BA, Oklahoma State University
BA, University of Oklahoma
MDiv, Phillips Theological Seminary
PhD, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Publications
“The Cosmopolitics of Belonging: Model Minority Superheroes and Theological Imagination” in Embodying Antiracist Christianity: Asian American Theological Resources for Antiracism, edited by Keun-joo Christine Pae and Boyung Lee
Model Minority Melancholia: Mourning and Resisting Anti-Asian Violence” in the journal Political Theology (Vol. 25, Issue 1)
“Reimagine Advent: Discover the Liberating Christ” 2021 Advent liturgy published by The General Commission on Religion and Race of the United Methodist Church
“The Shame Culture of Empire: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword as Cold War Playbook for Legitimating US Empire” in Feminist Praxis Against U.S. Militarism, edited by W. Anne Joh and Nami Kim, (Lexington Books, 2020)
“Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation” in When Kids Ask Hard Questions: Faith-filled Responses for Tough Topics, edited by Karen Ware Jackson and Bromleigh McCleneghan, (Chalice Press 2019)
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